What does replete mean?
Word: Replete
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: Replete means well supplied with something, or very full after eating.
How do you spell replete?
Syllables: re - plete
Tricky part: Students think of eating and write repleat. The word has no ea, and it finishes with ete.
Watch out for: repleat, repleet
Memory tip: There is no eat in replete, even though eating is what leaves you replete.
Replete in a sentence
Example 1: The garden is replete with roses and marigolds in February.
Example 2: Replete after the feast, the cousins dozed in the shade.
Example 3: This guidebook is replete with tips for walking in Sikkim.
Fun Fact
Honeypot ants have special workers called repletes. Their bodies swell with stored food, and they hang from the roof of the nest like living larders.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Cookie
Find the extra letter in the word:
repplete
a) r
b) l
c) p
d) t
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c) p. The extra letter sits right in the middle of the word, where one is enough.
Mingle-Mangle
The sentence hides a jumbled word. Choose the word:
After Grandmother's Sunday lunch, we all lay teerelp on the big sofa.
a) reflect
b) replace
c) replete
d) deplete
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c) replete. No d, c or f can be found among these letters, so the word must be replete.
Word Connection
Choose the antonym of the word replete as used in the sentence:
The new atlas is replete with colourful maps of every Indian state.
a) packed
b) lacking
c) loaded
d) crowded
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b) lacking. A book without maps would be lacking in them; loaded, packed and crowded all mean nearly the same as replete.
Spell-o-Spell
Three of these words are spelt correctly. Choose the meaning of the other one.
1. lucid 2. replete 3. resilient 4. fortuitus
a) holding plenty of whatever is needed
b) clear and easy to understand
c) able to recover quickly from trouble
d) happening by lucky chance
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d) happening by lucky chance. Fortuitous keeps an o before the final us, so that is the word misspelt.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. You would most probably feel replete ____.
a) after finishing a big thali
b) during a quiet maths lesson
c) while running a long race
d) before breakfast on a school day
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a) after finishing a big thali
2. At lunch a guest says, 'I am quite replete, thank you.' What should the host do?
a) take the serving dish away
b) call the guest to the table
c) fetch a bigger second helping
d) ask the cook to start again
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a) take the serving dish away
